Vaporized

The idea of vaporizing people is really a brilliant idea that the Party came up with.

It creates so much fear in the eyes of the people. Nobody really knows what happens. People just suddenly cease to exist. Maybe they are killed. Maybe they are sent to a far off land. Maybe they have surgery done to make them look like somebody else. Nobody knows. It's a complete shot in the dark to figure out what happens and nobody wants to know because there is always the possibility that being vaporized will be way worse than you could have ever guessed. People are going to avoid this mysterious fate at all costs. If you know you're going to be executed you at least have some control over you fate. You know what is going to happen to you. If you're vaporized you have no idea.

A person can't be a martyr. There is no glory in being vaporized. You can't say that somebody died for their cause. You can't honor them for being brave. You can't be praised for having courage. In fact, nobody will probably ever remember you because, according to the Party, you never even existed.